Friends of the Tauranga City Libraries Inc's campaign on Tauranga City Council Draft Annual Plan covers five concepts.

The Mobile Library must remain as the value of this service to the community outweighs any cost savings. No additional cost to ratepayers.

The Housebound service must be restarted at a cost of $40,000 per year to ratepayers.
The new Greerton Library must have its additional running costs funded.

Through the submissions we will show this to be a $60,000 per year cost to ratepayers.
The community stated, in 2010, the book stocks are to be 2.6 per capita not 2.4. Therefore no further cuts. No cost to ratepayers.

The large sum of money to be deleted from the book stock budget is due to the city having a lower population, as shown by the 2013 Census.

We believe it should be deducted but over a three-year period, enabling the collection to remain up-to-date and appropriate.

This is a total of $100,000 per year from ratepayers, not $1 million.

Kate Clark,
Friends of Tauranga City Libraries.